You're certainly better off than trying to get the Windows 7 Beta, or in 2 days, the RC. It took MSFT about 10hours just to make the thing available!!!
-- Mehall Simos Xenitellis wrote: > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Harry Rickards <hricka...@l33tmyst.com> wrote: > >> On 3 May 2009, at 21:18, David King <linux...@avoura.com> wrote: >> >> >>> I was watching the BBC News 24 TV programme "Click" broadcast this >>> weekend. When they were testing a 100 Mbit/s broadband connection, >>> they >>> used it to download two copies of Ubuntu 9.04 simultaneously. A good >>> advert for Ubuntu. >>> >> Just out of interest, how long did it take? >> > > It showed only a short segment of the download, demonstrating that > the download speed was about 77Mbps. It appeared that the issue of choosing > the Ubuntu ISO had to do with the availability of a fast distribution > server, so one can > put together a simple benchmark. Still, this was good. > > If you get 'get_iplayer' (http://linuxcentre.net/iplayer), then you > can download the episode > with > > get_iplayer --get 128 (expires on the 10th May) > > Simos > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
